Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies: Building a Global Infrastructure for Climate Change Research

Conference · Mon Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1113896

Williams, Dean N. ^[1]; Ahrens, J. ^[2]; Ananthakrishnan, R. ^[3]; Bell, G. ^[1]; Bharathi, S. ^[4]; Brown, D. ^[5]; Chen, M. ^[6]; Chervenak, A. L. ^[4]; Cinquini, L. ^[7]; Drach, R. ^[1]; Foster, I. T. ^[3]; Fox, P. ^[8]; Hankin, S. ^[9]; Harper, D. ^[5]; Hook, N. ^[5]; Jones, P. ^[2]; Middleton, D. E. ^[5]; Miller, R. ^[6]; Nienhouse, E. ^[5]; Schweitzer, R. ^[9] ; Schuler, R. ^[4]; Shipman, G. ^[6]; Shoshani, A. ^[10]; Siebenlist, F. ^[3]; Sim, A. ^[10]; Strand, W. G. ^[5]; Wang, F. ^[6]; Wilcox, H. ^[5]; Wilhelmi, N. ^[5]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
4. Univ. of Southern California, Marina del Ray, CA (United States). Information Science Institute
5. National Center for Atmospheric Reserch, Boulder, CO (United States)
6. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
7. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Pasadena, CA (United States)
8. Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
9. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (PMEL), Seattle, WA (United States)
10. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Established within DOE’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC-) 2 program, with support from ASCR and BER, the Earth System Grid Center for Enabling Technologies (ESG-CET) is a consortium of seven laboratories (Argonne National Laboratory [ANL], Los Alamos National Laboratory [LANL], Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [LBNL], Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [LLNL], National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR], Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL], and Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory [PMEL]), and two institutes (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [RPI] and the University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute [USC/ISI]). The consortium’s mission is to provide climate researchers worldwide with a science gateway to access data, information, models, analysis tools, and computational capabilities required to evaluate extreme-scale data sets. Its stated goals are to (1) make data more useful to climate researchers by developing collaborative technology that enhances data usability; (2) meet the specific needs that national and international climate projects have for distributed databases, data access, and data movement; (3) provide a universal and secure web-based data access portal for broad-based multi-model data collections; and (4) provide a wide range of climate data-analysis tools and diagnostic methods to international climate centers and U.S. government agencies. To this end, the ESG-CET is working to integrate all highly publicized climate data sets—from climate simulations to observations—using distributed storage management, remote high-performance units, high-bandwidth wide-area networks, and user desktop platforms in a collaborative problem-solving environment.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 1113896
• Report Number(s): LLNL-CONF-450053
• Resource Relation: Conference: Presented at: SciDAC Conference, Chattanooga, TN, United States, Jul 12 - Jul 15, 2010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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